Nurse Betty

Nurse Betty is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Neil LaBute starring Renée Zellweger as a sweet Kansas waitress who undergoes a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband’s murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite soap actor.

For her performance, Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. It was rated R for strong violence, pervasive language and a scene of sexuality

Opening in a small Kansas town, Betty (Renée Zellweger), a kind and considerate diner waitress, is a fan of the soap opera A Reason to Love. She has no idea that her husband, Del (Aaron Eckhart), a car salesman, is having an affair with his secretary and that he intends to leave Betty to pursue a relationship with the secretary. She also doesn’t know that her husband supplements his income by selling drugs out of the car dealership. When she calls to leave a message about borrowing a Buick LeSabre for her birthday, her husband tells Betty to take a different car, as the LeSabre (unbeknownst to Betty) has stolen drugs hidden in the trunk.

Two hitmen, Charlie and Wesley (Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock), show up at the house with Betty’s husband.

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